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  Ted Whitten Jnr  

Number:

   22  

Height:

   178

Weight:

   76

Birthday:

   15 March 1957

Period on list:

  1974 to 1982

Senior Games:

  144

Goals:

  129

Disposals:

   

Recruited From:

   Footscray and Yarraville Socials
Honours:  

Twice Victorian state representative.
   Lively half-forward, part-time mid-fielder and some-time half back. Battled determinedly for the ball. Kicked expertly to position. Started with number 34 then went to number 22. Always a hard trier. Son of the great Edward J Whitten - the greatest and best footballer of all time.  
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   Recruited at the age of 17 just before he was about to start training with South Melbourne. Used the shadow of his celebrity father to his advantage to apply better skills as he was tagged even as a youngster. Became a great player in his own right. A very neat footballer and I always say that Kelvin Templeton owed quite a few goals to his precision passing.  
     
   In 1982 he suffered a severe knee injury and after an unsuccessful operation was forced into retirement.  
     
   He accompanied his father on that memorable day when EJ was paraded in an open top car in the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The images of that final lap of honour with his dad at the MCG will live on in football folklore. Many tears were shed that day.		  
     
Click to return to Home page Often presents the EJ Whitten Trophy to the winner of the match between Essendon and the Bulldogs.   
   
 His uncle Don also played 24 games between 1956 and 1958.